Keeping the Momentum: How We Made Historic Health Care Gains for Kids & Why We Can’t Stop Now
For the first time in our country’s history, 95 percent of children have the health care coverage they need to be healthy and thrive, according to a new report by […]
A Shared Sentence: The Devastating Toll of Parental Incarceration on Kids, Families and Communities
More than 5 million children in the United States (7 percent of the total child population) have had a parent incarcerated at some point in their lives, including an estimated […]
Press Release: AACF Statement on Proposed Severence Tax Increase
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families applauds Governor Beebe for his leadership on this important issue. A significant increase in Arkansas’s severance tax is long overdue and through the Governor’s […]
Press Release: Annual Report on Arkansas’s Child Welfare System Released
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) released its annual assessment of the Arkansas child welfare system today. The report titled, Children in Crisis, examines performance data from the Division […]
Press Release: Study of Meth Impact Uncovers More Problems for Arkansas’s Child Welfare System
Poison, Problem, and Perspective: The Impact of Methamphetamine on the Arkansas Child Welfare System” is a study conducted by Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families that began as a project […]
Press Release: A Long Road Ahead: An Update of the Arkansas Child Welfare System
Today, Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families (AACF) released an updated child welfare report examining performance data from the Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)/Child Welfare System. The […]
Press Release: Quality Pre-K Expansion in Arkansas: Lessons Learned
Today Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) released an in-depth analysis of what occurred during the expansion process of the quality preschool program. The report “Quality Pre-K Expansion in […]
Press Release: The 2005 State of Working Arkansas
A report released today by Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) describes how Arkansas families are faring after the recession and subsequent economic recovery that have gripped the U.S. […]
Press Release: 40 Years After Creation, Medicaid Continues Improving and Saving Lives
This week the nation celebrates the 40th birthday of Medicaid. It was signed into law on July 30, 1965. And 40 years later it is providing 605,000 Arkansas residents with […]
Press Release: Child Advocacy Group Takes Issue With Governor Huckabee’s Medicaid Reform Plan
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) took issue with comments made recently by Governor Huckabee concerning reform of the state and federal Medicaid system that provides health care for […]